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Volume 18 , Issue 2 , PP: 111-121, 2026 | Cite this article as | XML | Html | PDF | Full Length Article
Raed Majeed 1 * , Hiyam Hatem 2
Doi: https://doi.org/10.54216/JISIoT.180208
Detecting and identifying crimes in real time represents a very necessary aspect of public safety. Traditional systems are human based monitoring cameras, video surveillance systems are ineffective, time consuming and prone to mistakes. Automated solutions are much needed. Using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to efficiently examine surveillance video footage is the main goal. This work presents a crime detection system based on deep learning. the study utilize UCF Crime dataset and four deep learning models: ResNet50, EfficientNetB2, Xception, and custom (CNN) were up-graded, trained, and tested. To guarantee best model performance, the suggested approaches required careful dataset preparation, pre-processing, and strategic data separation. By means of fine-tuning, each model addressed the constraints of conventional techniques and enhanced feature extraction and classification accuracy. With extraordinary performance measures of (99.53%) accuracy, (99.07%) precision, (98.43%) recall, and a (98.69%) F1 score, experimental findings show the superiority of the suggested system. These findings reveal the system’s high dependability in detecting and classifying criminal events, thereby far surpassing other CNN-based approaches. The model runs at an average inference speed of (30 ms per frame on CPU), with a lightweight model size of around (20 MB), These results demonstrate the system’s scalability, efficiency, and strong potential for intelligent surveillance applications. This study shows how scalable and effective deep learning models transform crime detection in surveillance systems to support public safety.
Anomaly Detection , UCF-Crime Dataset , Deep learning (DL) , Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) , Surveillance videos
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